Water-motor.



' A. G. WUNSGH.

WATER MOTOR.

APPLICATION FILED 1330.16, 1912.

1,083,975. Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

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COLUMBIA PLANOURAPH (10., WASHINGTON, D. cv

A. G. WUNSGH.

WATER MOTOR.

APPLIUATION FILED 1330.16, 1912.

1,088,975. Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

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Wm B I COLUMBIA PLANDGRAPH CO..WASHINGTON. D. C.

ALEXANDER CHRISTOPHER WUNSCI-I, 0F WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA.

WATER-MOTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 16, 1912.

Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

Serial No. 736,987.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALEXANDER CHRISTO- PHERWUNSCH, of the city of Winnipeg, in the Province of Manitoba, Canada,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water-Motors, ofwhich the following is the specification.

My invention relates to a water motor, and the object of the inventionis to provide an inexpensive, durable and efficient motor which can bequickly connected up for use and which cannot stop in any dead orcentral position once the water is turned on.

It consists essentially in an inclosing casing containing a valvecasting supplied with suitable ports, an outlet pipe communicating withthe valve receiving casting, a valve mounted in the casting suppliedwith an inlet portand two outlet ports, a feed pipe communicating withthe inlet port of the valve, a drive spindle rotatably mounted in thecasing, a wing or vane secured to the spindle and operating within thecasing, pins extending from the base of the valve, and means carried bythe wing or vane designed to operate the valve, the parts being arrangedand constructed as hereinafter more particularly described.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the device with the top of the casingremoved. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the device with the bottomof the casing removed. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross sectional viewcentrally through the casing, the section being taken in the planedenoted by the line X X, Fig. 2. Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the motoras it appears in use. Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view through thevalve receiving cast-- ing and the valve. Fig. 6 is a side elevation ofa portion of the vane and parts carried thereby. Fig. 7 is a crosssectional view through the bolt supporting one of the valve actuatingarms, the section being taken in the plane denoted by the line Y Y, Fig.6.

In the drawings like characters of refer ence indicate correspondingparts in each figure.

1 represents a casing formed from a cylindrical shell 2 closed by a toppiece 3 and a bottom piece 4, these parts being held to the shell byremovable bolts 5. The top and bottom pieces are fitted with bosses 6and 7 which receive a tubular shank 8 rotatably, the upper end of theshank being closed by a cappiece 9 screwed into the boss 6.

10 is a stuffing box threading into the boss 7 and receiving the shank.

11 is a spindle entering the shank and releasably secured to the same bya set screw 12. The spindle is actually the driving spindle of a washingmachine 13 or other similar device.

1 1 is a valve receiving casting located within the casing between theshell and the shank, which casting is permanently secured to the shelland bottom 4 of the casing and has the sides radiating from the shank.The casting is cored out centrally to receive a hollow cylindrical valve15 which fits snugly between the top and bottom of the casting and isfitted with an inlet port 16 and two further independent ports 17 and18. The inlet port opens at 19 and 20 to the outer face of the valve andthese openings as well as the ports 17 and 18 are designed to registerat proper instants and in a set manner with further ports 21 and 22supplied on the casting 14. The top of the easing is supplied with anopening 23 which communicates continuously with the inlet port 16, thevalve and with the inlet water pipe 24 carried by the casing.

25 is an out-let water pipe secured to the casing and communicatingdirectly through the bottom 4 thereof with the hollow interior 15 of thevalve.

26 and 27 are two actuating pins extending from the lower end of thevalve into the interior of the casing, it being noticed that the lowerend of the casting 14 is notched away at- 28 and 29.

30 is a vane or wing radiating from the spindle and engaging with theshell and the top and bottom of the casing. The vane is fixed to thespindle in any suitable way and is supplied with a packing piece 31which insures a water-tight joint with the shell and the top and bot-tomof the casing. This vane actually divides the casing into twocompartments A and B at all times, the compartments varying in sizedepending on the position of the vane and appearing between the oppositeface of the vane and the opposite face of the valve casting.

32 and 33 are pairs of opposing lugs formed on each side of the vane andreceiving bolts 34: which carry valve actuating arms 35 and 36respectively. The arms are swung on the bolts and are fitted at theirextremities with downwardly directed pins 37 and have the body portionsthereof notched away at 38, the object of which will be later described.

Spiral springs 39 encircle the bolts and have their upper ends tied at40 to the top lugs 32 and their lower ends passed into suitable openingslocated at 41 in the arms. The springs are wound so as to retain thearms normally in a set position in respect to the vane.

42 and 43 are pins extending upwardly from the bottom 4 of the casing,which pins are located in a particular position so as to engage with thearms 35 and 36.

'44 is a packing strip carried by the casting and bearing on thespindle.

I will now describe the operation of the device, reference being hadparticularly to Figs. 1 to 5 of the drawings and assuming that runningwater (under pressure) is admitted to the valve through the pipe 24.

The water enters the port 16 and is admitted through the opening 20 andthe duct 22 to the interior of the casing, it being noticed that at thistime the opening 19 is not registering with the port 21. The wateraccordingly forces the vane around in the casing until the arm 35engages with the pin 43 and as the vane continues turning the said armis formed inwardly toward the vane by the pin with the result that theouter end thereof carrying the pin 37 is passed behind the valveactuating pin 26. Shortly after this occurs the arm 35 is freed from thepin 43 through the notched away portion 38 so that the arm 35 is freedto swing in the direction indicated by the arrow, Fig. 1, acted upon bythe spring 39. It accordingly carries the actuating pin 26 with it andturns the valve to a position which causes the opening 19 to registerwith the opening 21 and the opening 18 to register with the opening 22.When this occurs the on-coming water passes in an opposite directioninto the casing and rotates the vane back to the original position, theavater in front of the valve escaping freely through the opening 22 andport 18 to the outlet pipe. In the reverse swinging of the vane the arm36 co-acts with the pin 42 and arm 27 to reverse the valve in a likemanner to that just described and this reversing of the valve continuesas long as water under pressure is allowed to flow through the pipe 24into the port 16. Accordingly the spindle 11 is oscillated backwardlyand forwardly. It will be seen that there is no possibility of the motorrefusing to operate as there are no dead center positions as is commonin some motors of which Tam aware.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A water motor comprising an inclosingcasing, a tubular cent-rally disposed shank rotatably mounted in thecasing, a spindle releasably secured to the shank a permanent valvereceiving casting located within the casing and extending between theshank and the inner wall of the casing, said casting being provided witha hollow interior and having side ports therein, a hol low cylindricalvalve rotatably mounted in the valve receiving casting and having a pairof openings in the outer face thereof communicating with a common inletport located in the body of the valve and provided further with anopposing pair of ports passing from the exterior to the interiorthereof, the latter opening and ports being designed to register withthe ports aforesaid in the valve receiving casting upon the valve beingturned, a feed pipe connected with the casing and communicating througha suitable opening reserved within the casing with the feed portaforesaid in the body of the valve, an outlet pipe secured to the casingand communicating with the hollow center of the valve, a vane secured tothe spindle and engaging with the inner wall of the casing, springpressed actuating arms extending from the opposite sides of the vane,said arms having portions thereof notched away, suitably locatedpermanent pins carried by the casing and engageable with the actuatingarms and actuating pins extending from the valve freely through thevalve casting into the interior of the casing, said pins being engagedalternately by the respective actuating arms, as and for the purposespecified.

2. A water motor comprising an inclosing casing, a tubular centrallydisposed shank rotatably mounted in the casing, a spindle releasablysecured to the shank, a permanent valve receiving casting located withinthe casing and extending between the shank and the inner wall of thecasing, said casting being provided with a hollow interior and havingside ports therein, a hollow cylindrical valve rotatably mounted in thevalve receiving casting and having a pair of openings in the outer facethereof communicating with a common inlet port located in the body ofthe valve and provided further with an opposing pair of ports passingfrom the exterior to the interior thereof, the latter opening and portsbeing designed to register with the ports aforesaid in the valvereceiving casting upon the valve being turned, a feed pipe connectedwit-h the casing and communicating with the inlet port, a reciprocatingvane secured to the spindle and engaging with the inner wall of thecasing, said vane dividing the easing into two compartments located onopposite sides of the valve casting, actuating pins extending from thevalve freely through the valve casting into the respective compartments,spring pressed pivotally mounted arms extending from the opposite sidesof the vane and designed in the reciprocation of the vane to pass intothe paths of the Signed at Winnipeg, this 31 day of Janphins, and meanseigalgeable alternatgly in uary, 1912. t e reci rocation 0 t e vane wit1t e respeetive actuating arms designed to engage ALEXANDER GHRISTOPHERWUNSOH' 5 With and then release the arms to strike the In the presenceofpins and turn the valve, as and for the pur- G. S. ROXBURGH, posespecified. J. M. TOPLEY.

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